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Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Silver Nitrate (Hardcover, 2023, Del Rey) 3 stars

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …

Great October read. Combination occult horror/romance/film buff novel set in Mexico City in the 1990s. Two long-time friends on the verge of a romantic relationship unknowingly risk reviving a Nazi hierophant with a growing cult following who are developing violent magic powers

I have a bias against books I think are written to be movies, and I think a few of the action scenes turned me off personally, but the relationship between the two characters is handled deftly and the main occult-based plot is built well. The magic is well contained -- not too much hand wavy stuff,